The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-26
CITY NOTES.

Many thanks for the serenade last
night.
Mr.. VIM. ID. Allen, of Fruitland, was
in town yesterday laying in supplies and
greeting his friends.
Mai. I'D. HOLSTER came up yesterday
from Orange City, and was with his
friends during the day.
We regret to learn of the death of the
infant child of Rev. J. w. Folsom, which
occurred at Welaka ON Tuesday last,
Mosquitoes are more bloodthirsty this
year than usual, even if they are not so
numerous as they have been in former
seasons.
Yesterday was what is termed in these
parts very quiet day. There was but
little stirring around and those who We're
moving about did not seem to be in
much of hurry.
The new moon is now smiling placidly
above us, and young lovers, old bache-
lors and gay widowers, will soon be en-
joying all the privileges a bright moon
light night brings.
Property owners and housekeepers
should not fail to clean up their premises
forthwith. Rigid sanitary measures will
be enforced during the summer months,
and if the work is begun early it can be
kept up at smaller expense and less
trouble.
Major w. p. Couper yesterday moved
into his elegant residence on the corner
recently purchased of DIR. A. l.. Cole.
He has one of the finest and cosiest
houses in the city.
When nothing happens, all the chest
nuts but recently hauled over, too dull
to be witty, and the printers upstairs
calling for copy, what is reporter tC
do? If this page proves too dull, read
over the kilograms. which are always
bright and interesting.
Mr.. NJ. Loeb returned yesterday from
New York, to which point he accom-
panied his wife, who sailed for Germany
few days since. Mr.. Loeb says that II
is hotter in New York than it is in Pa
latka, and that the people suffer IA great
deal more from the heat.
AT meeting of the Ladies' Aid So
ciety, held at the residence of Mrs. Ii. j
Grooms on Tuesday night. all arrange
ments We're made for a grand moonlight
excursion, to be given on the evening o
Thursday. June 2. The excursion will be
given for the benefit of the Church. anG
will no doubt attract large number OF
people who will like to spend an evening
pleasantly on the water
The ugly looking spiders which are Sc
plentiful in all our houses, are not 81
innocent and harmless as many people
suppose them to be. a New York paper
gives the following account of the dealt
of a child in that city from the bite of {
spider. The paper says: Fritz Kibitz
aged eighteen months, while playing
about on the floor in the apartments OF
his parents, $50 Fifth street, yesterday
was bitten by spider and died from the
effects of the bite in a few hours after
wards. The mother of the child, VIII,
was busily engaged in washing, hearC
him scream out suddenly with pain anG
found n small, short-legged, drab-col
ored spider crawling on his arm. The
woman killed the insect and thought N,
more about the matter until an hou
afterwards, when she found that tin,
child'saef hand was swollen to twice it
usual size. Soon after the wrist began
to swell and physician was summoned
He found that the child had been bitter
by the spider and applied antidotes. Th'
child's arm continued to swell despit,
the doctors efforts, and shortly aftel
noon the little one died in great agony.